Locking device.



JOHN H. WILLIAMS, or sPIiINGcrrYg IiiiNsrIi-VANIA. I

To' all whom t may concern:

LoeKING DEVICE.

. Be it lknown 'that I, JOHN HYILLIAB'IS, a

l citizen of the United States, residing at-` Sprng City', in the county of Chester and State. of Pennsylvania, have 1n`vented'certain new and useful yImprovements 1n Locking Devices; and I do hereb)v 'declare ,the-

pertains togina-ke' and use the saine.

folloiving to' be a fulh' clear, and 'exact description vof the invention, such asy ivillenable' others skilled in the art-'to which it ap- This invention relates to locking devices .for securing'cer'tainfoot levers of a--niotori `carfivheii the car is parked, so as to prevent it froni hei-ng 'operated and stolen; and it Consists in the.` novel construction and conibinationot' the parts .liereiii'afterfully described and claimed. l

In the drawings. Figure 1 isaplan viepvvT of the locking'device in its nornial positi'on. Fig. L is a siiiilarview but showing'the de- Avice closed soas vto lock the levers. vF ig. 3

4is a side vieuY ofthe. device.

' lever and Vthe transmission gea-r lever, pro-f' I)ect through-'these slots sothat thej canV he' 30.

A rectangular frame "2 is provided having .fy f i a. series ot parallel slots -l and 'o formed 1n it. ll`h ese slots are of the saine length. .and the levers of the niotor carI` such as the brake operated by .foot inthe usual nianner. The frame 'z2 is secured to .the usual gu'ideplat'e on the 'floor of the car in front'oftlie driveri through which vthese. levers project, by

inca-ns of screws 6 oranyv other suitahle'as- The frame has al longitudinal undercut guide bar 7 at its upper parti and three siniilar undercut guides 8 .arefforined fon the' hand (if the.

bars of thef gfrainefjat different Vdistances from the-'bar '7. jA stop har 9 is formed on the frame 'at'the lefthaiid side thereof. v 1 'grid i's provided comprising hars 10. 11- a`1id1-2 'of-differentlengths. and connected 'II-..vl'i'v'aitop bar 1li Theitop bar and the ends" of the liars 10.- 11 andlQ have. .beveled parts;4 le vvliicli' slide in the undercut bar 7 and the guides S." The longest bar. -10 at the' lef-t I grid ,has a. notch '1461in its left hand side. 'f

' A1 hinged lat-ch:` 1S secured to ythe upper part'jof the'grid,l and 20 and 21. are' two p lsigna-time.'

i from4 heilig-slid laterally'funijil latch -i I niei'it ivitli thestaples.l

.When the grid is in its normal position. as shown- 11i F ig. l, all the levers c'an be oper- I Specification of Letters .Patent i Patntd 0G13.A 23,- 1917. i l I vAppimaiixm med Juiy 27, 1917.' seriai Nonsense. l l

ated. Vhen; the grid'is slid to the left. as.

shown in Fig. 2, the notch 'engages with one lever, and holds it rigidly in .'placc. so that permit the cannot he operated without sliding the grid l fit vcannot be operated 'ineither direction. [The bars 11' and 12 limit the, upward iiiove# i .-nients ofthe other tivo `:toot levers sutricientlv l to p reventthe car froni being used. but ltliev Idonot necessitate these two levers heilig to the rightto free the leversand the de'- 'vice is so' arrai'iged'ai'id constructed that there 1s Ano dihcultv 'or loss of time about sliding the grid to the left Iso as to engage witlrtlie levers.

" 'Tl/'hat I cla-iin is:

1. locking device prising' a frame having parallel slots for the of different. lengths for-partiallvv covering nient-s 'of the foot levers in theni, and nieans levers to-ivork in, and' having also guides ar-A 'ranged crossivise ,of its slots, a grid orll'oclz 1 ing plate slidable. yin thesaid guides cross- Wise of the slots and havnigppa'rallel bars 85." the'slots andthere'by limiting the ,niove-" i for 'nornialhpreventing the 'grid'. from-7"' sliding.' 9..' A locking device for levers, conip'risin a' traine having a. seriesofparallelslots o l' ingparallel bars 'of 1dili'c'reritlengths 'pro-V equallength for tliepleverrsto vivork in, said franiehaving .also anundercutlba'r at its "topand undercut guides arranged' at d'itlerf I95 vided with beveled parts 'which are slid'able'. f'.

" in; t-lie 'said guide bar and guides crosswise .of the saidsl'ots` one '-oftlieliars of thelgrid -lizfltiiig also 'afnotch on tine sidezfor holding one of thelevers rigidlyy in position,4 and means .forfs'ecuring thegrid -froni sliding" tionsm -I vIn testimonyr whereof I lhavev affixed my "'JoIIN WILLIAMS.- r

*when it is .inr the lockedand unlocked posilA 

